604048 - 'Unsent Messages' is not compacted

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Ross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.1.13) Gecko/20100914 Seamonkey/2.0.8

The file 'Local Folders\Unsent Messages' is not compacted
 - neither by manual compaction (from context menu produced by a right-click on 'Unsent Messages' in mail folder list)
 - nor by 'Compact folders' in the 'File' menu
 - nor automatically according to the storage space preference defined.

(No exact duplicate bug has been found.)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. save messages to send later
2. send them (so that none remain)
3. observe size of file 'Local Folders\Unsent Messages'
Actual Results:  
'Unsent Messages' grows constantly 
(has been observed to exceed 20MB).



Expected Results:  
File size should be reduced to zero.

To fix: delete 'Unsent Messages' and 'Unsent Messages.msf' files (they will be re-created when required).
The file is occasionally compacted randomly (???)

Comment 1

[Chris Ross]

Somewhere along the line this problem has been silently fixed (or just gone away...).
In SeaMonkey 2.0.11 it now works correctly (both with 'File' -> 'Compact folders' for 'Local Folders' and also with a right-click on 'Unsent messages' -> 'Compact this folder').
Thanks to Anon